Saturday 26 January 2013

NETANYAHU REMAINS AS ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER, BUT WITH A FEW MORE HEADACHES TO RESOLVE HIS NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT!

Israel election: headache for Benjamin Netanyahu as Left and Right blocs draw

Israel's Right and centre-Left blocs have won an equal share of the country's 120-seat parliament in the election, with 99.5 per cent of votes counted, presenting a potential political headache and complex coalition negotiations.

 
But the success of various centrist, leftwing and Arab factions means the overall makeup of the parliament will be evenly split, in a rare result for Israel.
Within the rightwing bloc, in addition to the 31 seats garnered by a list joining Mr Netanyahu's Likud and the secular national Yisrael Beitenu, the national religious Jewish Home won 11 seats, as did the Sephardic ultra-Orthodox Shas.
The Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism faction won seven seats, bringing the bloc's total to 60.
On the centre-Left side, the centrist Yesh Atid - the surprise success of the elections - came away with 19 seats, slightly ahead of the centre-left Labour party, which won 15.

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